Ultrasonic imaging by radial scan of trapezoidal sector

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1990-07-19

1992-06-23

Jaworski, Francis

Surgery

Truss

Pad

73625, A61B 802

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active

051234157

ABSTRACT:
An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system is provided for scanning with a linear transducer array and displaying an image area which is truncated with respect to a conventional triangular image sector to take the form of a trapezoid. Uniformity of image resolution and ease of signal processing enhancement is provided by transmitting adjacent ultrasonic beams at equal angular increments over the sector area. The ultrasonic beams transmitted are focused around predetermined transmit focal points and the transmit aperture employed for each transmission is determined by a transducer sensitivity criterion applied to the focal point. Means are provided for delaying signal components received from the beam directions so that the sum of the components will form a coherent echo signal. Means are provided for dynamically focusing received signal components by dynamically focusing received signal components by dynamically varying the sampling frequencies of laterally disposed signal components, and the receive aperture is dynamically varied in correspondence with the number of array elements which satisfy a sensitivity criterion at different depths of field.

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